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Education 1971 B.A. in English, Spring Hill College 1977 M.A. in English, University of Kentucky 1981 Ph.D. in American Literature, Ohio University Book With co-author, Robert S. McPherson, River Flowing from the Sunrise: An Environmental History of the Lower San Juan, USU Press, 2000. (Winner of 2000 Norris and Carol Hundley Award; Finalist, 2000 Utah Book Award, Non-Fiction.) John Wesley Powell. Boise State University's Western Writers Series, 1994. Reports "Baseline Site Condition Assessment of Historic Properties Near the Bureau of Land Management Ranger Station at Sand Wash, Uintah County" (with Jerry D. Spangler and Donna K. Spangler) State Project No. U-07-C1-0035b. Ogden, UT: Colorado Plateau Archaeological Alliance, 2007. Articles "Hank Stewart and Sand Wash." The Confluence: Journal of the Colorado Plateau River Guides, #28, Winter 2006. "1000 Years of History on the San Juan," Blue Mountain Shadows, Summer 2000. "John Wesley Powell," Dictionary of Literary Biography: Nineteenth- Century Western American Writers, Vol. 186, 1997. "The River, the Ditch, and the Volcano: Bluff, 1879-1884," Blue Mountain Shadows, Summer, 1993. "Us vs. Them: John Wesley Powell and Western Water Issues," Akademika, March 1990. "An Interview with Barry Lopez," Western American Literature, Spring 1986 "Of Thee I Sing: Jim Jones," Southwest Art, November 1985. "Stalking Henry Thoreau," South Dakota Review, Winter 1984. Awards/Grants Fulbright Lecturer, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Peoples Republic of China, 1997-98. Distinguished Educator of the Year, S.U.U. 1994. Fulbright Lecturer, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia 1987-90. N E H Summer Seminar Grant, "The American West: History and Environment," Logan, UT, 1988. N E H Summer Seminar Grant, "The New England Transcendentalists, Concord, MA, 1983. Current Research Book contract (USU Press) with photographer Dan Miller on the human and natural history of the Green River through Desolation Canyon. |